In case you're wondering, the time signature is an alternating 14/8 & 19/8 (at the beginning, at least). Only Satan knows what's in the middle but I'm pretty sure he's doing some poly-rhythms. His internal metronome is ridiculous.

JOURNALIST: No one would have believed, in the lastyears of thenineteenth century, that human affairs were beingwatched from the timeless worldsof space.

No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, assomeone with a microscopestudies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop ofwater. Few men even consideredthe possibility of life on other planets and yet,across the gulf of space, mindsimmeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth withenvious eyes, and slowly andsurely, they drew their plans against us.